Commit 4ad8c173 by Xavier Ordoquy

Add a warning about totally custom login views.

parent a0f66ffc
...@@ -247,6 +247,10 @@ Unauthenticated responses that are denied permission will result in an `HTTP 403 ...@@ -247,6 +247,10 @@ Unauthenticated responses that are denied permission will result in an `HTTP 403
If you're using an AJAX style API with SessionAuthentication, you'll need to make sure you include a valid CSRF token for any "unsafe" HTTP method calls, such as `PUT`, `PATCH`, `POST` or `DELETE` requests. See the [Django CSRF documentation][csrf-ajax] for more details. If you're using an AJAX style API with SessionAuthentication, you'll need to make sure you include a valid CSRF token for any "unsafe" HTTP method calls, such as `PUT`, `PATCH`, `POST` or `DELETE` requests. See the [Django CSRF documentation][csrf-ajax] for more details.
**Warning**: Always use Django's standard login view when creating login pages. This will ensure your login views are properly protected.
CSRF validation in REST framework works slightly differently to standard Django due to the need to support both session and non-session based authentication to the same views. This means that only authenticated requests require CSRF tokens, and anonymous requests may be sent without CSRF tokens. This behaviour is not suitable for login views, which should always have CSRF validation applied.
# Custom authentication # Custom authentication
To implement a custom authentication scheme, subclass `BaseAuthentication` and override the `.authenticate(self, request)` method. The method should return a two-tuple of `(user, auth)` if authentication succeeds, or `None` otherwise. To implement a custom authentication scheme, subclass `BaseAuthentication` and override the `.authenticate(self, request)` method. The method should return a two-tuple of `(user, auth)` if authentication succeeds, or `None` otherwise.
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